These narratives frequently dip into self-reference andmetafiction.
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For example,metafictionand pastiche are often used for irony.
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Ackroyd uses typical postmodern techniques, such as playfulness, intertextuality, pastiche,metafictionand temporal distortion.
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Metafictionuses techniques to draw attention to itself as a work of art, while exposing the truth of a story.
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Often, historiographicmetafictionrefers to the loss of the feminine voice in history.
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The song is memorable for the clever self-reference, an example ofmetafiction.
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Historiographicmetafiction(see above) is an example of this.
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Postmodern authors tend to celebrate chance over craft, and further employmetafictionto undermine the writer's authority.
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Part of the novel's reputation is based on its expression of postmodern literary concerns through thematic focus onmetafiction, historiography, metahistory, marxist criticism and feminism.
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The postmodern stories are extremely self-conscious and self-reflexive and are considered to exemplifymetafiction.
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Historiographicmetafictionis a quintessentially postmodern art form, with a reliance upon textual play, parody and historical re-conceptualization.
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His works usually contain elements ofmetafiction, parody, and fantasy.
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He often usesmetafictionin his works, writing stories within stories.
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It also deals in deeper themes of fantasy literature, including multiple worlds and the nature of magic, and also delves intometafiction.
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His stories began to be published in large numbers in the 1990s; he has also written numerous novels considered in themetafictiontradition.
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